Package-tie.



H. R. STEELMAN- PACKAGE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED 050.1. I914.

1,147,825. Patentad July 27, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. D. c.

HARRY R. STEELMAN, OF OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY.

PACKAGE-TIE.

' Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd July 27 1915,

Application filed December 1, 1914. Serial No. 875,006,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY R. STEELMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ocean City, in the county of Cape lliay and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package- Ties, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to improvements in package ties, the object of the invention being to provide a simple inexpensive device of the character stated which securely holds a package without knotting the cord, and which permits the ready removal of the cord without cutting or breaking the same.

A further object is to provide a package tie which is adapted for use in tying packages of letters and other articles in the postal service, but which is capable of a wide range of usefulness in many other lines of business.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view illustrating my improve ments. Fig. 2 is an exaggerated plan view showing the disposition of the cord, the cord securing device being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a view in section of the cord securing device, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1 and showing the device on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a planview of the blank from which the securing device is made, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the securing device.

1 represents a package secured bymy improved package tie, consisting of a cord 2 and a securing device 3 holding the cord without the necessity of knotting the same.

The securing device 3 is made from a single blank of flexible sheet metalshown clearly in Fig. 1. The blank comprises two semi-circular sections 4: and 5, the former constituting the top section of the securing device when the blank is bent, and is provided with an opening 6 to receive the'cord 2. The cord is provided .at its end with a knot or other enlargement 7 which prevents its withdrawal from the opening 6, hence the cord and securing device are effectually joined.

The two sections 4; and 5 are connected by an integral strip 8, and section 4 adjacent both edges of the strip 8, is formed with cord receiving recesses 9 andlO respectively. Section 5 is made with an integral tongue 11 spaced from the strip 8, and at its free end located adjacent the edge of section 4: to grip the cord 2 as will be hereinafter explained.

The strip 8 is bent midway its ends, and the tongue 11 is bent adjacent its free end in line with the bend of the strip 8, so that the two sections 4 and 5 are located in substantial parallelism, the section l being located above the section 5 a distance just sufficient to accommodate the several runs of the cord between them.

Fig. 2 illustrates in an exaggerated manner a preferred arrangement of the cord runs, as follows: The cord 2 extends from the opening 6 in section 4:, longitudinally around one end of the package 1 as shown at 12, and thence around the other end of the package, as shown at 13. The cord is then passed around the bent strip 8 as shown at 14, and is next run transversely around one side of the package, as shown at 15, and thence around the other side of the package as shown at 16. The cord is then wound once around the strip portion 8, and located in the recesses 9 and 10 as shown at 17, and the end of the cord is drawn through the space between the side edge of the tongue 11 and strip 8, so that it cannot slip and work loose. In wind ing the cord around the strip 8 to position the same in the recesses 9 and 10, as shown 'at 17, it is necessary to draw the cord through the space between the free end of tongue 11 andthe edge of section 4:, and hence in releasing the package some little force is necessary to remove the cord through this space. The tongue 11 therefore exerts a cord gripping action at its end, and at its side, to securely hold the cord against movement. After the cord is positioned in the securing device, the section 1 'may be bent downwardly, if desired, to effectually clamp the several runs of the cord.

. Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do'not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A package tie consisting of a cord and a securing device, said securing device composed of flexible metal and having upper and lower sections connected by a bent strip integral with both sections, the upper section having cord-receiving recesses therein adjacent the strip, and said lower section having an integral bent tongue spaced from thestrip and at its free end spaced from the upper section, said upper section having an Gopies of this patent may be obtained for opening therein in which one .end of the cord is secured, said cord adapted to be passed between the sections and around the strip, and said tongue constructed to exert a gripping action at its side and end against the cord, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY R. STEELMAN.

Witnesses:

Gno. G. MURPHY, N. T. LUTTON.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. v 

